theothergeoff

curious if they put a W1 chip in these and/or a lightning port to make earpods and airpods compatible.  

Somehow I doubt a TouchID, but instead have it continuity link authentication to either a watch or a iphone that is TouchID unlocked. I don't think putting a secure enclave chip on a Mac is in the cards, as I think we would have seen code references to it in the betas.

paul.felderstein said:

I think you underestimate the desire of that foreign government to defeat Apple there and to eventually take over its factory. It's foolish to let one of our most valuable companies create value in the camp of a government that is committed to being our enemy. Note the word: not our competitor. Our military enemy. They are not benign. The time just hasn't come yet for action.

You're conflating industrial espionage with military espionage. Or are limiting your rhetoric to 140 characters.

I don't underestimate it...   On your military red herring: You underestimate the 'U.S.' government will to do the same to their own, and the overt 'non-benigness' of said gov't.   We don't own apple.  The world does (welcome to world capitalism). 

And if you think the physical location somehow provides data loss protection in a global cold military conflict, you don't understand the cyberthreat.

On your corporate protectionism argument:  If that is your argument is apple as a profitable company is doomed because China will siphon secrets to chinese industry, then Apple is doomed now, with or without opening up this facility.   Bottom Line, Apple's survival is to remain one step faster than the wolves, and the trade off of tapping into the Chinese skill set vs the risk of these players being coopted by their country's intelligence forces weighs on the side getting the skills.

paul.felderstein said:

Because the dangerous, militaristic Communist Chinese government isn't at cyberwar with us, isn't stealing iPhone secrets and is nothing to worry about at all.

Apple isn't 'us'  Heck, if I read you right, 'us ' is trying to steal iPhone secrets too, and has a larger military spend, and 'us' is killing more non-'us' people than everyone except for possibly Russia

Now, as a former resident of St Cloud, (the western outpost of Michelle Bachmann's domain of influence, and epicenter of the 'Stearns County Syndrome'),  this will play really well... 'ISIS....iPhone enabled Radicalization, by golly, it's plain as day... you know der, I gonda vote for dat der Trump guy, you betcha! and stop those Apples from killin' Murican's'

mysongranhills said:

This article is so filled with bias and inaccurate information, who ever wrote it should feel ashamed for mailing it in and doing basically no work to research.

You're new around here, aren't you.  

The author and his SEO obviously got you to register and respond, which advertisers pay for dearly.  As for his bias, yes.  That's what he fills his articles with... inaccurate... I would argue maybe incomplete, but less so innaccurate.